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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Devils right wing Jaromir Jagr will represent the Czech Republic again at the upcoming 2014 IIHF World Championships in Minsk, Belarus, iSport.cz reported today.

Jagr, 42, is expected to join the Czech team for practices today, head coach Vladimir Ruzicka said. Jagr, who led the Devils this season with 67 points, also represented the Czech Republic at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Fellow Czech Devils Patrik Elias and Marek Zidlicky have said they won't play in this year's world championships, which begin on May 9. Jagr initially sounded as if he was leaning against playing in the world championships, but later said he would probably play. He said being a potential unrestricted free agent was not a concern for him.

***Devils forward Dainius Zubrus captained host Lithuania to the bronze medal in the Division 1, Group B bracket of the world championships in Vilnius, Lithuania. Zubrus had nine points (two goals, seven assists) in five games in the tournament, which concluded Saturday. Lithuania went 3-2.

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TOM GULITTI has covered the New Jersey Devils for The Record since 2002. Prior to that, he covered the New York Rangers for four years. Gulitti joined The Record in 1998 after six years at The North Jersey Herald News. He graduated from Binghamton University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric-Literature.